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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth (search)
in which they forsook all, reliquished and impregnable position, bartered their previous claim to the character of men of judgement and capacity, and followed Lincoln, the so called baboon of Illinois, the coarse and vulgarian and petty despot who is now engaged in a tyrannical warfare, whose preposterous end and aim is the subjugation of the South. Pleasant camp scenes are daily witnessed here. For instance: The Glover Guard were drilling in the bayonet exercise; the drill officer Mr. Spilter a Frencliman and formerly Professor and Southern military school, who is said to be an expert, came on here with the companies from Georgia. Not far from the drill ground, which adjoined the Marine Barracks writen the vandals fired before their retreat are several tents occupied by the Brown Rafles, a Georgia company from Putnam county. This company had evidently been called from labor to refreshment-- though not exactly high twelve. Some were before their tents, others more exuberan